Zephyr Minerals Ltd. announced trenching results on MC and MC-2 gold properties in Zimbabwe. An excavator trenching program was completed on both properties in late November. The object of the trenching was to provide insight into the continuity of the mineralized zones prior to commencing a proposed diamond drilling program, as well as to explore potential new parallel zones, which if discovered would assist in determining total depths for the proposed drill holes.

Unfortunately results demonstrated the gold mineralization at MC to be discontinuous, generally occurring as short high grade gold lenses and generally less than one meter in thickness. Previous exploration work had demonstrated that wallrock had gold grades as good as and in some cases, better than the gold mineralized quartz hosted in shear zones. Additional exploration and sampling has demonstrated the wallrock gold mineralization is not consistent.

It was anticipated that wallrock mineralization would expand the thickness of the indicated gold zones, however this has proven not to be the case. The search for additional parallel gold zones in highly sheared greenstones encountered only minor gold in quartz and sulphide mineralization, with no new zones of potential economic interest being discovered. Based on these results it has been determined that the potential for a large high grade gold deposit similar to those in the Red Lake camp in Ontario, Canada, is remote on the MC property, and as such no diamond drilling will be conducted.

Zephyr will likely relinquish the option on the MC property at the end of the option term unless the current small scale miner uncovers new gold zones of potential interest to Zephyr's attention during his currently active mining and prospecting activities. On the MC-2 property, the gold mineralized quartz veining in the shear zones have better continuity and stronger gold mineralization than at the MC property. The Main Reef is presently limited to a maximum length of 70 meters as defined by trenching.

Widths at the Main Zone are 1 to 1.5 meters with gold grades up to 13.3 g/t and silver grades up to 176 g/t. The recent trenching program has discovered a new gold bearing quartz vein grading 5.7 g/t gold over 0.10 meters. This new discovery is located 200 meters south east the Main Reef. This maybe a faulted extension of the Main Reef but additional surface exploration will need to be done to confirm this.

The Company has determined that additional exploration work needs to be done before embarking on a diamond drill program. This work will include additional trenching of the new discovery as well as additional exploration along trend of the Main Reef to see if there is a continuation based on a pinch and swell model. Additional exploration work is proposed to start after the rainy season's end in April or May, 2024.

Reviewing the Magnetic and Induced Polarization (IP) survey at its Nyanga North property suggests that the main shear zone hosts minimal sulphides. The Company was exploring for a strong conductor since the gossan hosting eluvial mining 400 meters west of the Company property boundary suggests that the gold in that area is associated with sulphides. Soil sample results across the Main Shear has returned analyses up to 0.64 g/t gold in the coarse fraction (up to 1,000 microns) of the soils and up to 140 ppb gold in the fraction finer than 125 microns.

After review of the data it was decided that the shear zone is a low priority target and as such the Company has decided to let the two Special Block claims expiry as they come due for renewal. Zephyr still has an Exclusive Prospecting Order (EPO) application over this area and as such this area is not open for staking by others. If Zephyr is successful in receiving an EPO over this area the Nyanga North property would be included in the EPO.